Discussion (5) ¬

I’m asking myself what Jim’s game would be if he is attempting to bait Lynn into posting the full e-mail. I wish Admiral Ackbar were here. Traps are his specialty.

The best I can think of is getting Bork Con itself to promote “Bork Con Sucks”, funneling everyone with a grudge to Jim’s group. They would be resources for a propaganda war against Lynn and Bork con. That feels like the Plan B play but not the Plan A.

I suspect the previous posters have pretty much called it. The whole point of the email was to cut ties between Bork Con and Unagi Con By addressing or even acnowleding Jim’s post they’re defeating that. I assume Jim next step if the full email were posted would be a deflection with a complaint about how Bork Con was trying to censor his personal social media.. or something. Likely the best tactic for Lynn is to focus on Bork Con and promote the positive. The sort of crowd drawn in by flame wars probably don’t make for good goers. .

They might not even need to make a defense response. If Lynn sent that e-mail to the whole Unagi Con staff (which I think she did), then everyone on staff has seen it and will know that the version Jim posted is leaving out crucial information.

Maybe a lot of them don’t care or share Jim’s grudge, but I don’t think it’s likely that the entire staff would be fine with it. If that’s the case, there might be a staff member or two who will jump ship and release the original e-mail themselves because it’s gone too far and now the whole con is paying for Jim’s actions since they lost access to Bork-con’s equipment.

Even Garner may be able to post an independent response as a former staff member and highlight why he left, though that could be taken either way since he left to join Bork-con.

I forgot to mention that I can see them looking the other way for a direct attack at Lynn given he railroaded her, but some might have an issue with letting that animosity bleed into harassing a whole con and their staff. Everyone draws their own line.

A couple of weeks ago had a guy come up to my table at Coulee Con and told me how great he thought comicsgate was, and I honestly had to work so hard not to yell at him. And I mean, this guy had terrible opinions, and I pointed out that comics have always been political (like have these people never read Captain America or the X-men?) but a couple of things struck me.

Like this was a pretty sociable guy, but he showed no indication of seeing how uncomfortable I was. Like my whole body language changed. He just didn't give a shit. It never occurred to him that I might disagree with him.

(I mean, he saw me as another straight guy at a con - most people outside the LGBTQ+ community aren't going to recognize the genderqueer pride flag that was plastered across my shirt)

What was weird about the experience though was that he was telling me about some comics he liked. It wasn't like dealing with the trolls you usually end up with online. He wasn't trying to be a bad dude. He wasn't into this stuff because he knew it would piss off "SJWs." I don't think that thought ever even occurred to him.

He was just into some comics that happen to be made by some gross and awful people. But since he's not the target of those people's hate, he just dismisses it.

It's literally privilege in action.

He can sit out "politics" because his very existence isn't politicized.

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Because that would be weird.

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